and it's great to have this behind us. >> put us in your chair. what could you see that we couldn't see from home? >> reporter: i think one of the things about being at that table, it is so intimate, so, when joe biden is smiling or when joe biden is raising his voice a bit, it's really in your face, it was really in paul ryan's face. they were watching the clock so carefully, those opening statements of two minutes, with each question. they would always fill those two minutes exactly. they were both taking notes. this is what vice president biden wrote down. he had no apology, egyptian people, a.q., meaning al qaeda, bob gates, the former secretary of defense, effective and then i don't know what the other two words were saying. >> i should say, they put that out online today, we saw a picture of it online. what happened backstage when you talked to them? >> reporter: when we went back and saw vice president biden, it happened to be right at the time when he was getting a call from president obama, congratulating him on his debate and one of the